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Terrorism in Indonesia
· Paperwork for execution Amrozi and friends being prepared
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21 July 2008 - The Attorney General will order the execution of the people convicted for the Bali Bomb attacks in October 2002 before the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. This decision is made based on sociological factors of the people. "If the execution is performed during the holy month of fasting, it will disturb the fasting of many. Outside that, it will also interfere with the psychological mind of the people," said Attorney General Hendarman Supandhi.
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Last modified: 22 July 2008 12:04:18
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Presidential elections 2009
· 34 political parties approved to join 2009 elections
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8 July 2008 - As much as 34 political parties have passed the factual verification process and are entitled to join the general elections in 2009. There are two different groups; 16 parties which already joined the last general elections and 18 new parties. This information was released by the chairman of the meeting held by the General Elections Committee KPU after their meeting last evening.
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Last modified: 13 July 2008 05:45:56
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Mount Kelud (Kelut) volcano
· Mount Kelud lava dome is not expanding anymore
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16 June 2008 - The observation team for the Mount Kelud volcano near the city of Kediri in central Java has decided not to lower it's alert status in the next two years. The head of the observation post, Khoirul Huda, explain that at this time there are still signs of the seemingly imminent eruption from half a year ago. This causes the character of the volcano to be instable.
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Last modified: 22 June 2008 12:15:52
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FPI 'clashes' with moderate Muslems
· Dozens of FPI members demonstrate against Ahmadiyah in Makassar
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13 June 2008 - The regional police has finally arrested the 'general' of the FPI Mohammad Machsuni Kaloko in the Pondok Griya housing complex in Cirebon, western Java. Machsuni was on a list of 20 people that are fugitive after the June 1 incident at Monas in Jakarta. The police ensured that Machsuni was one of the instigators of the violence between members of the FPI and a peaceful demonstration for religious freedom.
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Last modified: 20 June 2008 11:03:14
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Sidoarjo mudflow
· Sidoarjo mud flow may collapse in coming years
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30 May 2008 - Indonesia's disastrous mud volcano is collapsing on itself, according to new research released on the second anniversary of the ever-growing environmental catastrophe. Every day, 100,000 cubic metres of hot, stinking sludge continues to ooze from the mud volcano, which burst through the earth two years ago during deep drilling at a nearby exploratory well, linked to Indonesia's richest man and also part-owned by Australian company Santos.
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Last modified: 31 May 2008 12:54:47
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Restless Mount Merapi
· The ever restless volcano in central Java
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22 March 2007 - After several months of quiet around Mount Merapi, scientists at near the volcano have raised it's status by one point to become two. This still indicates some activity in the volcano, but will at this point certainly not lead to an eruption on the run. From a distance the volcano looks the same, with a small plume of smoke rising from it's summit.
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Last modified: 27 April 2008 06:44:28
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Mount Papandayan volcano
· Alert status for Papandayan volcano raised
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17 April 2008 - Authorities in Indonesia have raised the alert level for a volcano near the country's third largest city following increased volcanic activity, a volcanology center official said on Thursday. More than 100 volcanic tremors were recorded from Mount Papandayan in West Java on Wednesday, although there were no visible signs it would erupt soon, said Estu Kriswati from the volcanology center in the nearby city of Bandung.
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Last modified: 22 April 2008 12:03:39
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Dengue fever in Indonesia
· Hundreds of dengue patients flood Tangerang hospital
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27 February 2008 - Dengue patients flood the general hospital in Tangerang. According to the latest information there are now some 400 patients being treated in the hospital since the start of this year. A number of rooms in the hospital is now completely filled with dengue patients. In general the patients are still treatable.
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Last modified: 27 February 2008 05:03:30
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Earthquakes in Indonesia
· West Sumatra earthquake swarm
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20 February 2008 - A strong 7.5-magnitude quake struck Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, triggering mass panic here and sparking tsunami alerts locally and in Thailand, officials and residents said. There were no immediate reports of damage. The US Geological Survey said the undersea quake struck at 3:08 pm (0808 GMT) some 312 kilometres west-southwest of the North Sumatra capital Medan, at a depth of 34 kilometres.
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Last modified: 26 February 2008 02:59:30
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Java landslides and floods
· Ahmad Yani airport in Semarang closed due to flooding
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2 February 2007 - According to the Flood Coordination Team of the Jakarta area, there were flood reported at 144 locations in the city. They all formed in less than two hours. Around 12:00 local time (GMT+7) yesterday afternoon there were floods on 70 locations in the city. Just two hours later there were 144 spots. This information was released by the head of the team, Bobby Aryono on Friday evening.
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Last modified: 19 February 2008 06:28:43
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Visit Indonesia Year 2008
· 'Visit Indonesia Year 2008' launched by Minister of Tourism
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29 December 2007 - The Indonesian Culture and Tourism Ministry has launched "Visit Indonesia Year (VIY) 2008" in an effort to attract more foreign tourists to the country, the Antaranews agency reported on Thursday. Indonesian Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik officially declared the start of VIY 2008 at a function in the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) on Wednesday night.
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Last modified: 04 February 2008 06:51:21
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UN Climate Change Conference Bali
· 3 - 14 December, Nusa Dua, Bali
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03 December 2007 - Leaders from many governments started to arrive in Bali on Sunday for what is expected to be a lengthly and contentious negotiation on how to fight global warming. It is believed that global warming can cause a devastating rise in sea levels, which would send hundreds of millions of people into poverty and cause mass extinction of animals.
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Last modified: 06 December 2007 15:30:24
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Mount Semeru volcano
· Intensity of eruptions Mount Semeru decreases
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6 November 2007 - Eruptions still take place at the Mount Semeru volcano in the district Liumajang in eastern Java, but it's intensity is going down. Seismic data from the observation post Gunung Sawut in Lumajang shows that there are some 40 eruptions every day. Earlier this was somewhere between 55 and 130 times a day.
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Last modified: 06 November 2007 16:30:08
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Ferry sinks off Java coast
· Three year sentence sought for ferry captain
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18 January 2007 - Prosecutors in Indonesia want three years in jail for the captain of the ferry that sank off the coast of northern Java last years, an accident in which over 300 people died. State prosecutors said that Wiratno Cendanawasih, 53, who was captain at the ill-fated Senopati Nusantara at the time of the accident, was guilty of negligence leading to the deaths.
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Last modified: 18 September 2007 11:53:01
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Adam Air plane missing
· Black boxes from Adam Air plane found
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23 August 2007 - A salvage ship operated by the United States has arrived in Indonesia to hunt for the black box of an Adam Air plane that crashed into the sea on New Years' day, killing 102 passengers and crew. The Boeing went missing off South Sulawesi and sparked a massive search in the early days of this year.
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Last modified: 29 August 2007 01:34:03
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Forest fires Kalimantan and Sumatra
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26 September 2007 -Indonesia has rented two helicopters to cope with the returning forest fires which cause a haze over the region regularly. "The government has brought in two helicopters to overcome the forest fires," said Malem Sambet Kaban, forestry minister. He said that the two rented helicopters, Russian Kamov Ka-32A helicopters rented from South Korea, will be used in West and Central Kalimantan, the two provinces that were most affected.
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Last modified: 04 November 2007 04:55:06
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7.5 quake hits 100 km east of Jakarta
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8 August 2007 - An earthquake with a magnitude of around 7.5 on the Richter scale struck just 110 kilometers east of Jakarta, 115 kilometers north of Bandung at 00:04 local time (+7 GMT). The quake struck 75 km (46.60 miles) northwest of Indramayu and was at a depth of 286 km, the agency said. The quake could be felt by residents in the capital Jakarta and many other parts of the island, Southern Sumatra and even the resort island of Bali.
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Last modified: 09 August 2007 17:31:10
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Mount Gamkonora eruption
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11 July 2007 - Mount Gamkonora, located in South Ibu Sub-district, West Halmahera District, North Maluku Province, erupted yesterday at 14:50 hrs East Indonesian Time or 12:50 Jakarta time. Mount Gamkonora is located 3.5 hours from Ternate, capital of North Maluku Province. The mountain spewed cold lava and the dust is now piling up to 30 cm high with the radius of around 7.5 km from the epicenter.
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Last modified: 16 July 2007 12:45:10
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Java shaken by quake
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27 November 2006 - Six months after a powerful earthquake reduced much of two Indonesian provinces to rubble, IOM is still building thousands of temporary homes, providing support services to badly injured survivors and transporting hundreds of metric tons of supplies into the quake-affected areas. The 27 May, 6.3 magnitude quake struck at dawn off the coast of Java, killing 6,000 people and injuring 50,000 more in densely populated Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces.
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Last modified: 27 May 2007 09:45:52
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Floods hit West Java
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12 February 2007 - Floods which have inundated at least three Indonesian provinces including the capital Jakarta for more than a week have claimed 85 lives, officials said on Sunday. Nearly half a million people are still unable to return to their homes. The death toll rose by five after more deaths in West Java, said an official at the national disaster agency.
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Last modified: 22 February 2007 04:49:53
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Central Sulawesi conflict
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17 Febrary 2007 - Police and army in Central Sulawesi are put on high alert after warnings that Islamic militants are planning attacks in the area. This was told by the regional police chief late Friday. Earlier that day the Australian government had announced it had credible information that militants were already in an advanced stage of planning attacks in Central Sulawesi.
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Last modified: 17 February 2007 06:20:53
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Bali tourist areas hit by bombs
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24 January 2006 - Two arrested this month, including a close aide to the country's most wanted militant, were named suspects on Monday for involvement in last year's restaurant bombings on Bali, a police spokesman said. Police last week declared four other men suspects in the same case on charges of helping hide accused militant mastermind Noordin M. Top during and after the bombings that killed 20 people at three eateries.
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Last modified: 10 January 2007 10:02:31
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Papua showdown
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9 May 2006 - A second Victorian university has fallen foul of the Indonesian Government over West Papuan independence, putting at risk a lucrative education market. Soon after Deakin University was effectively black-listed by Indonesia over the work of two academics, a spokeswoman for the Indonesian Ministry of National Education, Nur Samsiah, said it had also cut ties with RMIT University.
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Last modified: 09 May 2006 07:15:34
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Polio in Indonesia
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9 May 2005 - Indonesia reached almost 24 million children in its last polio immunizations but may have another vaccination round in some regions to be sure of stamping out the disease by 2008, officials said on Monday. Over the past year polio, once considered virtually wiped out globally, has infected hundreds in Indonesia
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Last modified: 09 May 2006 07:11:41
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The Aceh conflict
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01 January 2006 - As snow floated down from the dark skies over Finland's capital Helsinki, Vice President Jusuf Kalla and exiled leaders of the Free Aceh Movement held a historic meeting aimed at building a long-lasting peace in Aceh. Kalla met for the first time with GAM leaders Malik Mahmud and Zaini Abdullah here Friday evening.
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Last modified: 22 January 2006 15:43:42
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Landslides in Java
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9 January 2006 - At least 155 people died in two separate natural disasters that hit Indonesia's main island of Java last week, as authorities Monday decided to end the evacuation process amid worries that more deaths are unaccounted for. In Jember, where a flash flood and mudslide swept through four districts that left 79 people dead and displaced 7,605.
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Last modified: 09 January 2006 19:51:42
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Violence in Maluku
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22 November 2005 - Army soldiers and police officers were fought a pitched battle at dawn on Monday in Ambon city, leaving three civilians injured. The brawl broke out as a wedding reception was winding down into the wee hours in Nusaniwe district of the city.
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Last modified: 22 November 2005 08:55:47
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Shootout in resort town of Batu
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9 November 2005 - Indonesian police have confirmed that the Jemaah Islamiyah bomb-making Azahari bin Husin killed himself during a fierce gunbattle yesterday with security forces in Batu, East Java. Azahari, a Malaysian, was the head of JI operations, and the mastermind of both Bali bombings and other suicide attacks in Indonesia.
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Last modified: 13 November 2005 10:09:04
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Fuel price hike 1 October 2005
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25 October 2005 - Over 70,000 workers have been laid off since the government hiked fuel prices on Oct. 1, local media reported on Tuesday. "The workers are from Bandung, the capital of West Java province and Surakarta in Central Java province. I expect the number to reach 100,000 by the end of this year," Chairman of the Textile Association Benny Sutrisno was quoted by the Jakarta Post as saying.
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Last modified: 26 October 2005 09:52:07
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Mandala plane crash
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5 September 2005 - An Indonesian passenger plane with over 100 people on board crashed into a residential area shortly after taking off from the northern city of Medan, officials said. The Mandala Airlines jet bound for Jakarta crashed minutes after take-off from Polonia airport in Medan on the island of Sumatra.
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Last modified: 05 September 2005 06:59:16
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Power failures in Jawa and Bali
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20 August 2005 - After two days of hard work by state run power company PLN, all problems are solved now. Some areas had to wait almost two days. Power supplies to large areas of Java and Bali islands, including the capital Jakarta, were disrupted on Thursday, PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara reported.
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Last modified: 18 August 2005 08:19:43
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Fuel shortage
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July 2005 - The price of premium gasoline soared by up to 500 percent in some provinces on Wednesday as the country's fuel shortage bit deeper, with the National Police stationing officers at gas stations around the country to prevent outbreaks of violence among frustrated customers.
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Last modified: 07 July 2005 08:19:38
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Boxing Day tsunami in Indonesia
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16 October 2005 - Reconstruction in Aceh is moving too slowly nearly 10 months after a killer tsunami struck, and there is not enough coordination between aid groups, a top U.N. official said on Sunday. Jan Egeland, the U.N.'s chief emergency relief coordinator, said the province's remoteness on the tip of northern Sumatra island, a lack of roads as well as ports had made things difficult for the international community.
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Last modified: 28 May 2005 09:42:17
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Tentena market bombing
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28 May 2005 - Two bombs exploded Saturday at a busy market in central Indonesia, killing at least 20 people and wounding 40 in a volatile region marred for years by religious fighting, a police official said. The bombs happened in the morning in the Christian-dominated town of Tentena, near Poso, the coastal town where fighting between Muslims and Christians has claimed hundreds of lives since 2000.
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Last modified: 28 May 2005 09:19:29
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Eruption of Gunung Talang
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13 April 2005 - More than 25,000 panicked residents have been evacuated from the slopes of a volcano on Sumatra island and officials raised the alert level on Wednesday as the mountain's activity intensified. The heightened rumbling of Mount Talang has coincided with a string of moderate earthquakes on Sumatra, which is still recovering from a massive December 26 quake and tsunami that killed nearly 130,000 people in Aceh province to the north.
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Last modified: 13 April 2005 08:28:49
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Protests over fuel price hike
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28 February 2005 - Indonesia's government will implement long-planned fuel price increases starting Tuesday, including a 32% increase in the price of gasoline, Minister of Energy and Mines Purnomo Yusgiantoro told reporters late Monday. The price increases will result in a reduction in massive fuel subsidies that have crippled the government's ability to fund economic development.
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Last modified: 28 February 2005 08:20:36
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Bandung garbage landslide
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21 February 2005 - Nine people were killed and around 139 are missing after heavy rain caused a landslide on Monday near a garbage dump on the outskirts of the Indonesian city of Bandung, police reported.
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Last modified: 21 February 2005 10:38:34
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Lion Air plane crashes at airport
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30 November 2004 - Up to 31 people may have been killed and many more injured after a jet carrying 153 passengers and crew crashed on landing in heavy rain in Indonesia's central Java. Indonesia's Metro TV said 31 were dead and "tens" more hurt.
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Last modified: 30 November 2004 06:14:38
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Australian embassy bombing
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9 September 2004 - A powerful explosion outside Australia's embassy in central Jakarta left at three people dead and at least three badly injured Thursday and caused extensive damage to nearby buildings, officials and witnesses said.
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Last modified: 09 September 2004 07:55:43
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General elections 2004
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15 October 2004 - The 2004 national elections are already behind us. Indonesia's sixth president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been inaugurated and his first cabinet has been formed. This page offers a review of election related news and background information.
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Last modified: 05 April 2004 01:14:27
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Floods in Sumatra
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12 December 2003 - New floods kill several people again in Northern Sumatera. Once again, illegal deforestation is blamed instantly for the troubles.
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Last modified: 03 November 2003 10:17:57
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Marriott Hotel bombing
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5 Augustus 2003 - A powerful bomb exploded on Tuesday at about 12:30 p.m. just outside the JW Marriott Hotel on Jl. Dr Satrio in the Mega Kuningan business complex in Kuningan, South Jakarta.
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Last modified: 05 August 2003 11:16:45
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Bali terrorist attack
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12 Oktober 2002 - in the late evening, a terrorist attack struck the tourist island of Bali. At least two car bombs exploded near Sari Club and Padi Club in the heart of Kuta, along Jalan Legian. Sari club was completely demolished and over 180 people were killed, several hundred were injured. Below is the latest news about bali, as well as detailed information about the location of the club and an image I personally made in July 2002.
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Last modified: 13 October 2002 17:29:19
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